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Consumers are going to get hit it from especially during back-to-school sales. so overhauling your supply chain and moving that elsewhere will be costly. it will impact consumers. >> there's a lot of things to take from this. part of this is a short term pain that the american people have to feel. it's not just a trade war, this is a defense war. this is a national intelligence war. too long china has expected the world to pay for them to look at the huawei case. that is part of the problem here. the -- china has expected the world to pay them to surveil the world and spy on the world and yet ...

I want to turn your attention to china, the chinese executive arrested in canada, threatened extradition to the u.s. for violatio violations. president trump said he may intervene in the case if it helps trade relations with china. what are your thoughts? >> it sets a dangerous precedent. we have a treaty with canada where we can make these types of extradition requests. law enforcement officers here and prosecutors here clearly made the request for them to detain her in relation to that prosecution. the president could direct the justice department to back down from that prosecution. i think ...

With regard to cohen criminal, with regard to trump criminal but it goes to intent, whether he knew he was committing this crime by paying these women off. we've heard the audio of michael cohen and donald trump speaking together. would that be enough? >> you have to prove that the president did something that he knew that the law forbid, right, that he acted willfully. so typically unless you can get into somebody's mind, that's done through cooperators testimony, other people that had conversations about what the purpose of the payment is. in the edwards case there were very few of those. he...

Conspiracy against the united states. that is the charge that alleged russian spy maria butina pleaded guilty to today in a federal court. she's accused of trying to infiltrate political circles back in 2015 saying she acted under the direction of a retired russian bank official named alexander torsion. she faces five years in prison and is willing to hand over evidence of any crime as well as testify at grand juries in exchange for a lighter sentence. with me now senior cnn security analyst lisa monaco. thank you to coming straight to us from the train. we appreciate it. i know you worked as ...

Is obfuscate all of this. but it's not going to work. >> what do you think? >> brooke, i think a lot of people have been trying to compare this to john edwards' pruce a prosecution and it's very different -- >> he didn't want his wife to know about it versus the american people. >> and the jury only acquitted on the weakest charge opinion. n on the other five charges it was hung. they had concerns they didn't have proof of direct payment. you have cohen saying it, ami saying it, pecker saying it, howard saying it and a tape that reflects discussion about this payment. that's a lot of immunity ...